The Many or One
Kevin Connolly (Author)
Revolver. House of Anansi Press
Lisa Robertson (Author)
Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip. Coach House Books
David W. McFadden (Author)
Be Calm, Honey. Mansfield
Reviewed by Douglas Barbour
The back cover of Kevin Connolly’s Revolver argues that his poems "present a challenge to the idea that an honest poetic voice need be singular, static, egocentric, and bound by convention." An ideal devoutly to be wished. And Connolly is not alone in practicing it.
In Revolver, Connolly stages a number of formal approaches to vary the speakers of his poems. And they do speak: complaints, jokes, cries of love, a [...]
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